SEOUL: South Korea rolled out mass testing for 52 prisons in the country after a massive prison outbreak and may extend flight suspensions from Britain in a bid to prevent the spread of coronavirus cases, the health minister said on today. Over half of the total 2,292 inmates and personnel […]
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WASHINGTON: The United States yesterday saw its highest number yet of coronavirus cases recorded in one day, with more than 277,000 infections. The hardest-hit country in the world by the pandemic, the United States has marked 20.4 million cases overall and just under 350,000 deaths. Infections have been surging in […]
BEIJING: Different efficacy results for a Chinese Covid-19 vaccine released separately in China and in United Arab Emirates are both real and valid, an executive at China National Biotec Group (CNBG) told state media. China approved its first Covid-19 vaccine for general public use on Thursday, a shot developed by […]
WASHINGTON: The United States marked the New Year yesterday by passing the extraordinary milestone of 20 million Covid-19 cases, after global celebrations welcoming in 2021 were largely muted by the pandemic. The US has floundered in its efforts to quell the virus, which is spreading rapidly across the country and […]
TOKYO: The Tokyo Metropolitan Government will request the central government to declare a new state of emergency over a resurgence of Covid-19 cases, the Nikkei newspaper reported today. Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike is set to meet Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura on Saturday afternoon to make the request, Nikkei said, citing […]
PARIS: The French health ministry reported 19,348 new coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours yesterday, slightly less than Thursday’s 19,927 and well below Wednesday’s more than one-month high of 26,457 but still far from the government’s target of less than 5,000 daily additional infections. France’s cumulative total of cases […]
NEW YORK: About two million doses of Covid-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca are set to be supplied every week by the middle of January in the United Kingdom, The Times reported. AstraZeneca expects to supply two million doses of the vaccine in total by next week, the […]
LONDON: The United Kingdom recorded a further 53,285 cases of Covid-19 today, the fourth day running that it has topped 50,000, and 613 deaths, official data showed. The rise in cases compares with the 55,892 that were reported yesterday, while the death tally marks a fall from the 964 reported […]
BEIJIN: There is no sign new coronavirus variants will affect the immune impact of a vaccine that China has just authorised for public use, a disease control official was quoted as saying today. The shot by an affiliate of state-backed company Sinopharm was approved yesterday, the day after news of […]
MANILA: The Philippines will prohibit the entry of foreign travellers from the United States effective Jan. 3, President Rodrigo Duterte’s spokesman said today, after the more infectious new variant of the coronavirus was detected in Florida. The travel ban, until Jan. 15, covers those who have been to the United […]